The Empire Attacks

Posted on Mon Mar 9th, 2020 @ 12:14am by Division Admiral Thomas Lasky & Zuko Omakan & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 78: Let's March Without the Noise of Threat'ning Drum
Location: Various Locations
Timeline: 1100Hrs - April 7th, 2392

The universal time was about Oh five hundred hours and deep in space near the Klingon boarder with the Gorn Hegemony. General Klag smiled as he sat down in the command chair of his flagship. the IKS Gorkon which was the command ship for the fifth fleet. Itself leading this invasion force of over twenty two hundred ships of various types. His main goal was going to be the conquest and annexation of the Gorn Hegemony any way he could.

Klag tapped the display at his right wrist, which came up on the screen. "Captain?"

"Yes General?" a younger Klingon male responded as he turned to face Klag.

"How soon before my flagship is ready?"

"The Gorkon is fully at your command General?" came the unexpected response.

"Fine work Captain." Klag responded. "We attack within the hour..."

"Yessir.. I have already disseminated the target list fo the various squadrons under our command. the Captain responded evenly. "I felt it best to handle that for you."

"Very well Colonel." Klag was looking for someone to handle his Chief of staff duties and now he had just found that someone. "Continue with your work... We get underway within the hour..."

"Aye General." and with that the newly promoted Colonel went back to work while Klag waited as the time for the attack came and went as the General was seated in his command chair of the IKS Gorkon as the display before the bridge crew displayed their target in crisp and clear detail. It was Gornar and the Klingon war machine was on the move.
"Start the attack!" Klag snarled as soon as the timer hit zero.

Within minutes over three dozen Gorn bases found themselves coming under heavy assault from Klingon fleet units of the Fifth and sixth fleets leading the charge as the invasion began.

The distress calls from the Grn area of responsibility began a shorty time later, hours went by as the Gorn fleet scrambled to meet the enemy in battle.

The Gorn fleet commander rallied his fleets and troops with a simple statement. "We will sail across Kolkar's vast ocean where we will meet the enemy in battle... and kill them all!"

By the time eleven hundred hours rolled around, the news had broken across the Federation that the Klingons were up to something very big inside Gorn space.

Rykar was busy monitoring the news channels, particularity given all the activity going on lately. Just 3 days ago, the Romulan republic declared its independence and formally requested federation aide. Then the latest news report came across. The klingons had just launched an invasion of the gorn hegemony. With this latest development Rykar brought this to everyone's attention, "hey, guys, you may want to see this one, the Klingons, they have invaded gorn Space.

"I should expect brass will start giving orders soon," Zara admitted with a frown.

Commander Tom Lasky simply shrugged. "Well they aren't screwing around now... are they... A series of internal slave revolts was not enough, they need to go pick fights with everyone around them.." he sighed. "What's the Federation's response Rykar?" he inquired

Rykar shook her head, "Not good, Federation president is putting all military forces on high alert and has issued orders telling the fleet to prepare for mobilization. Reason being, Several Federation ships present in Gorn space have been attacked. apparently, the federation council has been called for an emergency session."

Lasky nodded. "Okay.." he turned to Teval who was on his left and Zara who was on the other size of Teval. "Guys.. It might be worth our while to talk to the other skippers in our battlegroup and prepare to ship out... Just in case this does go stupid."

"Notify all ships in the group to recall their auxiliary and fighter craft then," Zara spoke with a wave of the hand.

Lasky nodded. "Okay. I'll also recall all of our people and make sure we are ready.."

Teval then went over to the comm system. "I'll Contact Nevanzi and let him know about the situation."

Lasky made a note that the Akurians were handled. He would start with informing Zuko whom he suspected already knew and would work his way down the list from there. "Alright.. Anyone we need to contact?" he inquired. "I'll start with Zuko and go from there." he then rose to his feet and departed.

Lieutenant Moni Nasao, the ever present face of tactical simply chortled in amusement. "Serves 'em right for starting this shit.."

Teval opened up a channel with Nevanzi, informing him of the full rundown, which Nevanzi then responded, "Yeah, I heard heard a few things about this, Well either way if war is declared, I am willing to back you guys up, about 80% of my fleet is combat ready, though it will take a couple of days for the Army to get all their equipment back on board their ships."

Teval nodded, "Yeah, that's fine, I don't think the war is going to start in 5 minutes anyway."

Nevanzi thanked Teval, whom then closed the channel.

Lasky came back in a few minutes later. "Engineering and Medical are informed." he commented as he sat down. "Tactical and Security are my next stops before I go see the fighter corps guys and the Marines." with that he rose to his feet and departed a second time.